Ahmed Patel visits adopted villages in Gujarat

Ahmed Patel, Congress MP and political secretary to party president Sonia Gandhi, visited Dumkhal village panchayat, which he has adopted under the Sansad Adarsh Gram Yojna.
Patel, who is a Rajya Sabha member from Gujarat, visited Dumkhal yesterday.
The villages of Dumkhal, Chopadi, Kanji, Kokam, Piplod, Singal Gabhan and Vandri, which come under Dumkhal panchayat, located in Dediapada tehsil of Narmada district, have a population of more than 8,500, most of them tribal.
"Under the SAGY, government has not allotted any special funds to me....People who have designed this scheme have adopted much more developed villages," Patel said.
"The Vasava and Bhils (tribal communities from the region) are very close to me and with your cooperation we can improve conditions here," he said, noting that despite the poverty, law and order situation in the area was good.

"I have already written to the Telecom Ministry for a mobile tower, to the Rural Development Ministry for a PDS shop and other departments to look into the various issues faced by all of you," he told villagers.